Disclosure

1. How we are funded

Our sole source of revenue is fees paid by clients for therapy. We are privately owned by our founding clinicians and carry no external investment from the gambling, betting or gaming industries. We have never accepted, and will not accept:

• sponsorship, grants or research funding from a gambling operator, supplier or trade body;
• funding from any foundation whose income derives from gambling industry contributions;
• advertising revenue of any kind on this website;
• affiliate commission, referral fees or bounties from any organisation;
• payment in exchange for a review, a rating, a listing position or a link.

2. Advertising we buy

We do advertise this practice. We buy paid search advertising so that people looking for help with gambling harm can find a therapy service, and those advertisements are labelled as advertisements by the search engine that carries them. Where you have arrived here from an advertisement, the page you landed on is a real page of this website containing the information the advertisement promised — we do not operate doorway pages, redirect visitors to a different destination, or advertise one thing and deliver another.

We buy advertising only for our own therapy services under our own brand. We do not bid on the names of other organisations in a way that would mislead you into thinking you had reached them, and we do not use any third party’s trade mark in our advertisement text or display URLs.

3. How our reviews are produced

The reviews on our support reviewed pages are written by registered clinicians on our team, drawing on the experience of referring clients into these organisations and following up on what happened. Every organisation reviewed is free at the point of use. None of them pays us, none of them sees a review before publication, and none of them has any right of approval over what we say.

Reviews carry a rating out of five. That rating reflects our clinical judgement of how useful the organisation is to the people we see, and nothing else. We publish criticisms of organisations we admire and rate highly, because a review that only praises is not a review.

Where a free organisation is a better answer for someone than paying us, our reviews say so plainly. That is the most obvious conflict of interest we have, and we resolve it in the reader’s favour by policy rather than by intention.

4. Content standards

• Every page is written in house. We publish no syndicated, spun or machine-generated filler.
• Clinical and signposting pages carry a review date and are re-checked at least twice a year.
• Where we cite an instrument or research finding, we name the source so you can check it.
• Recovery stories are labelled illustrative composites. They are not real named clients, and we neither solicit nor publish testimonials.
• Helpline numbers and organisation details are verified against the organisation’s own website before publication.
• We correct errors. Report one to hello@ukgamblingtherapy.co.uk and we will fix it and note the correction.

5. No user-generated content

This website hosts no comments, forums, message boards, review submissions, ratings or user profiles, and accepts no uploads. Everything published here has been through our own editorial and clinical review. This is a deliberate decision: an unmoderated space in which people discuss gambling losses would be an obvious target for operators, loss-recovery scams and unlicensed lenders.

6. Third-party names and marks

We refer to organisations such as GamCare, GamStop, Gamblers Anonymous, BeGambleAware, Gordon Moody, StepChange and the NHS by name, descriptively, so that we can review and signpost them accurately. Those names are the trade marks of their owners. We do not reproduce their logo artwork; the badges in our footer are original marks drawn by us alongside the organisation’s name, linking to their own website. We claim no affiliation, partnership or endorsement, and none of them has endorsed us.

7. What we would tell you if it changed

If we ever took commercial funding, ran advertising, or entered a paid referral arrangement, we would say so here and on the affected pages before the arrangement began. We do not expect to, but a disclosure page that cannot describe what would trigger a disclosure is not much of a promise.

Related: About us · Terms Of Service · Responsible Gaming